Forwarded to HES by Ross Emmett.
THE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS
announces
THE 1995 SPINDEL PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE:
"EXPLANATION IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES"
--Thursday Evening, October 5, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Mark Twain Theater, 8:00 pm
Speaker: Alison Wylie, University of Western Ontario
Title: Parts and Wholes: Convergent Evidence and the Explanation of
Linguistic Divergence
--Friday, October 6, Fogelman Executive Center (The University of Memphis)
9:30-11:30am
Speaker: Daniel Little, Colgate University
Title: Causation in the Social Sciences
Commentator: Paul Roth, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Moderator: Joe Pitt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1:30-3:30pm
Speaker: David Henderson, The University of Memphis
Title: Simulation Theory v. Theory Theory: A Difference Without a
Difference in Explanation
Commentator: Richard Grandy, Rice University
Moderator: Ann Cudd, The University of Kansas
3:45-5:45pm
Speaker: Paul Humphreys, The University of Virginia
Title: Explanation v. Understanding
Commentator: Jim Bohman, St. Louis University
Moderator: Richard Miller, Cornell University
6:30-9:30pm
Reception at the home of Murray Spindel
--Saturday, October 7, Crowne Plaze Hotel, Mark Twain Theater
9:30-11:30am
Speaker: Merrilee Salmon, The University of Pittsburg
Title: Standards of Evidence for Anthropological Claims
Commentator: Robert Feleppa, Wichita State University
Moderator: Karsten Stueber, The College of the Holy Cross
1:30-3:30pm
Speaker: Harold Kincaid, The University of Alabama, Birmingham
Title: Defending Neoclassical Economics on Grounds of Explanatory Power
Commentator: Lee McIntyre, Colgate University
Moderator: John Bickle, East Carolina University
3:45-5:45pm
Speaker: Alexander Rosenburg, University of California, Riverside
Title: On Why Intentional Social Science Neither Progresses Nor Has
Refinable Generalizations
Commentator:David Henderson, The University of Memphis
Moderator: Martin Hollis, University of East Anglia
Open to the Public at no charge. Supported by the Murray Spindel Philosophy
Lecture Fund and the College of Arts and Sciences Academic Enrichment Fund.
Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel, 250 N. Main St., Memphis, TN 38103, Phone
(901)527-7300, Fax (901)526-1561. Spindel Conference rate: $85/night for
single or double.
Conference Organizer: David Henderson [[log in to unmask];
(901) 678-4365 FAX]
Ross B. Emmett, Augustana University College, Camrose, Alberta
CANADA T4V 2R3 voice: (403) 679-1517 fax: (403) 679-1129
e-mail: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
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